There is only about an hour and a half until the Discovery launches. It is scheduled to go up at 3:50pm Central, 4:50pm Eastern. If you need a place to watch it, NASA TV has been covering it online all day, so just head on over there.

You know HTML, right? Simply put, it’s a browser clock that uses hexidecimal color codes to correspond with the time on your system. It takes the current time and converts it to a hex code, which displays behind the time in the center, ever-changing. It’s fairly hypnotic. If you own a Mac, you can download a screensaver of it as well.

• The Colour Clock

Nothing will ever beat #FF9933, though. Find the corresponding time for that, and you win a prize!

Another year, another production of Spike TV’s blatant advertisement for big named games.

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Too true. I completely agree with Mr. Del Toro, and anyone that doesn’t is a motherfucker.

These sounds that he’s making do not sound natural. But it’s probably because he’s Russian. Can they all do this?

I want to be able to do this.